Hi Everybody,
I have been looking into Alpha Five over the past two weeks with the view to build a database for our business to replace one developed in FileMaker which we currently use and which I'd like very much to be rid of - for many reasons.
My time is limited in assessing all the pros and cons, but I am rather impressed with all the supporting enthusiasm of A5 users, especially on the Forum. The only "gripe" I might have is the sheer amount of information available and the problem remembering where and what I've seen for retrieval.
This may seem like a silly question but I'm having a problem deciding where to start if we do go ahead with A5. That is, do we develop a desktop app first or a web app? It doesn't seem that obvious to me.
I've read somewhere that one can develop hybrid desktop/web apps but I'm not sure where one starts and finishes. We have a medical equipment hire/sales company, with several depot locations. The database is currently used on our office LAN but we want to be able to use it in each depot as well and we are having all sorts of problems getting FileMaker to do this in a workable manner.
I'm hoping someone can give us some pointers to head us in the 'right' direction. It seems as tho' A5 can do the job, just where do we start? All or any suggestions will be appreciated.
Ron S
I have been looking into Alpha Five over the past two weeks with the view to build a database for our business to replace one developed in FileMaker which we currently use and which I'd like very much to be rid of - for many reasons.
My time is limited in assessing all the pros and cons, but I am rather impressed with all the supporting enthusiasm of A5 users, especially on the Forum. The only "gripe" I might have is the sheer amount of information available and the problem remembering where and what I've seen for retrieval.
This may seem like a silly question but I'm having a problem deciding where to start if we do go ahead with A5. That is, do we develop a desktop app first or a web app? It doesn't seem that obvious to me.
I've read somewhere that one can develop hybrid desktop/web apps but I'm not sure where one starts and finishes. We have a medical equipment hire/sales company, with several depot locations. The database is currently used on our office LAN but we want to be able to use it in each depot as well and we are having all sorts of problems getting FileMaker to do this in a workable manner.
I'm hoping someone can give us some pointers to head us in the 'right' direction. It seems as tho' A5 can do the job, just where do we start? All or any suggestions will be appreciated.
Ron S
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